Prerequisites: Basics of Code 3MProspective students with other prior programming experience will need to pass a placement test to be eligible for this course offering. Please contact us here should you wish to have your child take our placement test.

In this next course in the blocks-to-Python sequence our students will build project-based mini-programs in both the micro:bit
blocks editor and Python that expose them to the Internet of Things - an application of programming where marrying software with hardware provides real-world solutions to everyday problems. Each Code Camper is provided with a micro:bit, as well as a MacBook laptop to run the micro:bit solutions.

At the end of the course, our students will understand how basic programming concepts encountered thus far like variables, loops, events and conditionals come together to create a hardware solution.

“Coding” is synonymous with “programming”. It refers to the art of writing computer code, which are instructions
that a computer can follow to solve problems. Practically every facet of technology that we encounter in
our daily lives - from online banking systems to video games on our iPhone, from the GPS systems we rely
on navigation to the security systems that protect our homes and offices, is created from code.

Communicating with a computer requires the use of a language, just like how communicating with another human
being involves the use of a language like English or Korean. The difference is that writing code for a computer
in a particular language is a little like speaking to somebody who is absolutely particular about grammar
and punctuation - any deviation from a language’s rules results in a computer not being able to accept the
programmed instructions. Different computer languages are well-suited to doing different tasks. For example,
JavaScript is the undisputed lingua franca of the web, LISP is used extensively by NASA and in Artificial
intelligence research while C and FORTRAN finds its adherents in high finance especially in the field of
high frequency trading.